reducing Book keeping for Wizards and Clerics

[LokiDR]

Make a couple of standard lists, and modify from there (slightly).

Remaking spell lists is a task to be done outside of games, not in the middle. If a special need comes out, swap one of the spells on your standard list. Any time you level (obviously at the end of a session) you can spend time working over your entire list.

As a DM, I got annoyed some times with spell casters taking lots of time to play with spell lists. More often than not, they would have been better off not messing with their standard spells.

 

[Toben]

I would like to second the index cards idea. Its very easy to keep track of all the important information on the cards and if you purchase an index card holder(like a recipe box) then you can sort all of your spells nicely by level and just draw out the cards you want when you memorize spells each day. For multiple instances of the same spell just add a paper clip on to the card. After you cast the spell just drop it back in the box. It eliminates the between sessions paging through the notebook and trying to figure out which spells you have left. Makes it very quick and simple and easily organized. Also its really fun when the players are bugging you for heals after a fight and you hold up a single card and ask "Who wants it?"


-Toben

 

[LokiDR]

Under 2e, there was a system of using cards for Psionic powers.